I’ve always thought Telluride has the best views of any ski area in Colorado. Towering peaks of sheer rock. The awe-inspiring Wilson group. Europe style vistas. Apparently, however, the views aren’t good enough for Colorado’s tourism ad makers. MMG Worldwide, the Kansas City-based firm in charge of Colorado’s $19 million marketing push to lure vacationers, photoshopped the view in this ad, which recently ran as part of a two-page spread in the one-million-subscriber New Yorker magazine. The tag line is “This must be love.” Too bad it’s a fake. And a weak fake at that.
It’s a photo taken from atop Telluride’s Prospect Bowl, with a pair of wistful – dude, where’s your sunglasses? – skiers admiring a view toward Bald Mountain and the ridge that climbs to Telluride’s iconic Palmyra Peak. But instead of Bald Mountain or anything real, MMG designers inexplicably chose to erase the big mountains and insert a pair of identical hills, side by side. And it’s a hack photoshop at that. At least photoshop different hills next to each other.
Or even better, let Colorado’s vistas speak for themselves.

Colorado coaches are reluctant, of course, to call Saturday’s game at Texas A&M “a must-win.”

But I will.

With the Buffaloes struggling on offense, I think it will be difficult for them to beat Oklahoma State and Nebraska, even though the Nov. 15 game against the Cowboys is in Boulder.

Colorado (4-4, 1-3 Big 12) needs two victories to become bowl-eligible. And on paper, Saturday’s game in College Station and the Nov. 8 home game against Iowa State look like the easiest road.

Then again, what do I know? Four days before true freshman quarterback Tyler Hansen discarded his redshirt and played against Kansas State, I wrote in a blog that CU coaches likely would “stay the course” and not make any significant changes. Read more…